Inside the Army’s Innovation Engine: Building Tools to Outpace Tomorrow’s Adversaries
The cyber threat landscape facing The Army is taking a bold step to make innovation part of its DNA — not a one-time project. Andrew Evans, Director of the Army’s Directorate for Strategy and Transformation, joins Fed Gov Today with Francis Rose to explain how his team is institutionalizing transformation to help the Army stay ahead of increasingly complex global threats.
Industry Partnerships and Mission Outcomes
Michael Shrader, Vice President of Carahsoft, explained that the days of government developing its own systems from scratch are long gone.
Low-Cost Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection
Cybersecurity is often viewed as expensive and resource-intensive, but the most effective protections can be remarkably simple and inexpensive. That was the central point made by Jermaine Roebuck, Associate Director for Threat Hunting at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Innovation Through Public-Private Partnerships
Janel Balch, Major Account Manager in the National Security Group at Dell Technologies, explained how effective public-private partnerships emerge when government takes the lead in framing the challenge.
Professionalizing Open Source Intelligence
Dennis Eger, Senior Open Source Intelligence Advisor for the U.S. Army, described how his organization is transforming its approach to OSINT, positioning it as the “intelligence of first resort.”
Future Risks in Intelligence
Kile Sears, Strategic Partner at Semantic Visions, described how risks are evolving and why intelligence professionals must prepare now.
Coalition Intelligence and Information Sharing
Tom Sweatman, Vice President of Janes Americas, explained why open-source intelligence (OSINT) is so valuable in coalition contexts.
Modernizing the Guard’s IT and Zero Trust Journey
Kenneth McNeill, Chief Information Officer of the National Guard Bureau, explained how the Guard is modernizing its IT capabilities and advancing toward a zero trust future.
OSINT in Threat Management and Executive Protection
Sean Underwood, Vice President of Government at ShadowDragon, described how open-source intelligence is reshaping this mission space and why both technology and human judgment are essential.
Reimagining the Defense Industrial Base
A.J. Bertone, Managing Partner at In-Q-Tel, made the case for fundamentally rethinking how the defense industrial base operates.
